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Confirm or settle (a contract or bargain). Grapple at close quarters, especially (of boxers) so as to be too closely engaged for full-arm blows. A struggle or scuffle at close quarters, especially (in boxing) one in which the fighters become too closely engaged for full-arm blows. A knot used to fasten a rope to a ring or cringle, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own part.